Guides
Each one maps to a flow that actually exists in the app: where to tap, what you will see, and why it works that way.
- 01 Install ClearDeck and turn on protection What ClearDeck needs from your phone, why it asks for a VPN connection, and how to get protection running in about two minutes.
- 02 Keep protection running Why the tunnel drops on reboot, how Android's always-on VPN fixes it, and what to do when a phone manufacturer keeps killing it.
- 03 Understand the dashboard What each number and chart on the ClearDeck dashboard actually measures, and how to read it without fooling yourself.
- 04 See and control what each app does online The per-app view, the access log, and how a single log entry becomes a rule that applies to one app or to everything.
- 05 Rule lists: the five modules and your own What ships inside ClearDeck, how to import your own block and allow lists, and how link subscriptions stay up to date.
- 06 Deep inspection and the certificate What deep inspection adds, why it needs a certificate on your phone, how to install and remove it, and the honest limits of the technique.
- 07 Power saving and battery use What a local firewall really costs to run, measured honestly — 20.67 seconds of CPU per half hour — and exactly what the power-saving switch trades away to lower it.
- 08 Export the access log as CSV What ClearDeck's access-log CSV actually contains, why it is UTF-8 with a BOM, and how to sort and filter it to find the apps and trackers that try hardest to reach out.
- 09 When protection will not start A scan-down checklist for the usual reasons ClearDeck's tunnel will not come up or quietly stops filtering, ordered from most likely cause to least, with a check for each one.
ClearDeck has not shipped its first public build yet; these guides document the behaviour of the shipping build.